30 Painful Death Quotes

An unused life is an early death. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. – William Blake

I’m working myself to death. – Alan Ladd

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. – Albert Camus

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. – Albert Camus

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. – Albert Camus

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. – Albert Camus

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. – Albert Einstein

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead. – Albert Einstein

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. – Aldous Huxley

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. – Ambrose Bierce

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. – Anais Nin

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. – Anais Nin

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. – Anais Nin